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Give a Brick, Get a Jade
by Orah Curbelo Length: TBA
Genre: Self-Help, How-To, Business, Spiritual, Alternative
Sentence: Give a Brick, Get a Jade makes it clear that human Being isn’t an aspiration. Being is not doing.
Blurb: Being yourself is the magic trick to making life work. It costs you nothing to be yourself. You got it for free. Paying it forward is a concept everyone can understand—give what you got for free away and don’t worry about the results. We live in a balanced world so somehow, everything we pay forward always comes back to us. When what we pay forward is something we got for free then the payout, or what receive, is purely enjoyable, because there was no great cost to achieve the results. When you Give a Brick, Get a Jade you don’t ever feel seller’s remorse or that you worked too hard to enjoy what you got in exchange.
Synopsis: Everybody wants the best in life. But every time you TRY to get what you want, it is almost like you push it away from yourself. Give a Brick, Get a Jade, spares the simple-minded soul all the philosophy behind why this happens so often and gets straight to the point of how to fix it! Give a Brick, Get a Jade explains that, like so many successful businesses, each individual person has the ability to optimize their returns by mobilizing waste into bi-products.
To do this you must first recognize what you are. Once you have taken an inventory you can pitch your worth--you can proudly give away something valuable to the proper market. Once you give something valuable you get something even more precious in return. That is how life is if you stop to recognize the method. This book teaches you how to give and ask nothing in return directly, and watch good things come to you.
Finding what is valuable about yourself, and giving it to those who need it, is how all efficiently run businesses mechanize waste for sale in niche markets for additional revenue. The readers of Give a Brick, Get a Jade will learn to copy the bi-product cycle of major corporations. People think they make life happen by working hard, but people get what they need by accepting what they are and being happy with themselves. Best selling books, The 80/20 Principle and The Secret, each provide millions of readers with the same message, that life is designed to be easy.
When you stop focusing on what you don’t have, life shows you the abundance that has been waiting for you. Give a Brick, Get a Jade teaches that only you know best what works for you. When you realize what you have to give, and that what you are is valuable, you no longer have to work so hard to get what you want. You just need to give what you got.
All masters have attempted to explain this. This wisdom to Give a Brick, Get a Jade is part of the 36 stratagems of war that came from China thousands of years ago. The Art of the Advantage partially explains the strategy “exchange a brick for a jade” in his book—but he uses the original strategy which is to “lure the enemy and take him in,” to show that in business, value is determined by the interested party. Value is not absolute it is relative. He offers an insight for business strategy but none for the individual.
The five pages author Krippendorff devotes to “exchange a brick for a jade” in Art of The Advantage teach how to make a more lucrative business. This is separate from how to make a more lucrative character. Give a Brick, Get a Jade changes this war strategy and proves that if business can turn waste into profit, then people can be themselves and expect life to give them what they need.
Give a Brick, Get a Jade teaches its readers that life is a song of yourself, not a song about your pressures, struggles, doubts, or agendas. Your song teaches others how you need to be treated. Give a Brick, Get a Jade shows you that when you realize what you got, you are able to give, and then get, what you want.
Platform: Self-help Guru to my many friends and associates.
Endorsements: Sting might, since he gave me the idea...but I wouldn't count on it until after he reads my chapter on him.
Film: It will be a guest spot in an Indie film going into production summer 2007.
Additional: Not completely finished. I am going to finish it, but for now here are the first three chapters or so, in rough draft form. |
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NOTE: All material is copyright protected. No portion of this material may be copied or reproduced, either electronically, mechanically, or by any other means, for resale or distribution without the written consent of the author. All copy has been dated and registered with the American Society of Authors and Writers. Copyright 2007 by The Swetky Agency |
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